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Kings Point Career Seminar Group at first meeting, left to right: 1st row, Capt. P. Gel-lerman, American President Lines; Rear Adm. G. McLintock, superintendent, U.S. Mer-chant Marine Academy; D. Cameron, Hudson Waterways Corp.; L. Ciriilo, Gulf Oil Co.; 2nd row, C.O. Tobey, Mobil Oil Corp.; R.A. White Jr., Texaco; Capt. E. Marcus, Gulf Oil Co.; Copt. A.G. Fialcowitx, American Export Isbrandtsen Lines; 3rd row, Capt. F. Hearn, Mobil Oil Corp.; Capt. J.M. Forrell, Waterman Steamship Corp.; A. Bacols, States Marine Isthmian Agency, Inc.; 4th row, W.M. Gage, Mobil Oil Corp.; F.J. Rhati-gan. States Marine Isthmian Agency, Inc.; Capt. E.J. McClafferty, American President Lines, and Capt. T.W. Mcrrell, Texaco. Second session of Kings Point Career Seminar, left to right: 1st row, M. Schiebei, Marine Transport Lines; Rear Adm. Gordon McLintock, superintendent, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; L.J. Heroy, Reynolds Metals Co.; J. Culbertson, Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Co.; reor, Henry Clark, Alaska Steamship Co.; Thomas Murphy, Marine Transport Lines; R.C. Dcvis, U.S. Steel; Capt. F.K. Riley, Farrell Lines; Robert Kron, Management & Shipping Transport, Inc.; Capt. Bernard Murray, Marine Transport Lines; James Gaskell, C evelond-Cliffs Steamship Co., and A.L. Edwards, Chevron Shipping Co. Third session of Kings Point Seminar Group, left to right: 1st row, Mrs. Margaret Igoe, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Philadelphia; Rear Adm. Gordon McLintock, superinten-dent, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; Thomas Jordan, Sea-Land Service, Inc.; H. Rosenbush, Military Sea Transportation Service; 2nd row, John Alban, Poling Transpor-tation Corp.; Joseph Keegan, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Philadelphia; Harvey J. Borgen, Humble Oil & Refining Co.; Capt. Frank Hooper, Humble Oil; 3rd row, Capt. George Ryan, Grace Line, Inc.; Capt. Warren Leback, Sea-Lond Service Inc.; Walter Staret, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Philadelphia; 4th row, Thomas J. McTaggert, Humble Oil; John Sexton, U.S.A. Corps Eng.-Philadelphia, and J.W. Tierney, American Trading & Production Corp. Career Seminars Sessions Given At Kings Point By Leaders Of Shipping Firms Representatives of shipping com-panies recently visited the 1969 graduating class of the U.S. Mer-chant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y. to conduct three sepa-rate career seminars. The shipping picture was pre-sented in detail by officials from the East Coast. Gulf, West Coast and Alaska. Advantages were dis-cussed in careers that featured con-tainer, dry cargo and tanker ves-sels, as well as the lighterage and barges of inland waterways and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Rear Adm. Gordon McLintock, Academy superintendent, welcom-ed the seminar groups to the Acad-emy following luncheons held at the Officers Club. Comdr. Charles Renick, alumni officer and place-ment director, arranged the semi-nars. The first classmen, who will re-ceive their merchant marine li-cences, degrees and U.S.N.R. com-missions on June 4, heard speakers in three separate sessions. During the seminars, checks were presented to the Kings Point Fund by Capt. Edmund Marcus, for Gulf Oil Company and Lewis J. Heroy, for Reynolds Metal Com-pany. U.S. Yards Gearing Up For Upsurge In Orders The nation's shipbuilding indus-try is investing hundreds of mil-lions of dollars in facility upgrad-ing and expansion programs in the belief that a large upsurge in mer-chant ship orders is inevitable in the years immediately ahead, ac-cording to an industry spokesman. Edwin M. Hood, president of the Shipbuilders Council of Amer-ica, appearing before the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, said his industry will have ample capacity to handle the enlarged shipbuilding programs when the}- materialize. Mr. Hood, testifying on HR-4152, which authorizes $15.9-million to be appropriated for government-sponsored merchant ship construc-tion in fiscal year 1970, spoke criti-cally of the "starvation" levels of appropriations for such purposes during the past decade. "The inadequacy of merchant vessel construction funds requested for fiscal 1970, embodied in the au-thorization bill, HR-4152, now be-fore you, has been emphatically demonstrated by the testimony al-ready presented by spokesmen for shipowners and ship operators. A measure of corroboration can be found in the 1968 Annual Report of the Maritime Administration: It is reported that some 35 Ameri-can shipping lines, including both subsidized and unsubsidized opera-tors, have indicated a collective re-quirement of 220 new merchant ships of all types during the five-year period 1969-1973. "This total averages 44 ships per year. Taking into account the avail-ability of 'carry-over' funds plus the $15.9-million in new money requested for FY 70, the Maritime Administration will only be able to enter into commitments for 10 ships in the coming fiscal year." Mr. Hood told the committee that every major shipyard in the country is engaged in either a ca-pacity-expansion or upgrading pro-gram. He said two yards doubled their capacity last year, two en-tirely new yards will be in opera-tion next year and additional yards have plans to increase their out-put. "The shipbuilding industry of the United States has invested more than $400-million in the last decade in new or improved facilities, and the plans to which I refer could involve a doubling of this expendi-ture should a major shipbuilding effort become a reality. All signs point toward continued heavy capi-tal expenditures well into the 1970's. These investments, actual and prospective, reflect a confidence and faith that this nation will, in the years immediately ahead, re-structure shipbuilding programs to deal realistically with the block ob-solescence that has overtaken the merchant fleet as well as the naval fleet." As a result of the facilities im-provement programs, Mr. Hood said U.S. shipbuilders could, as a minimum, handle orders for an ad-ditional 35 to 40 merchant ships per year. NSSC Issues Contract For Eighty Garbage Lighters To Nine Yards Contract IFB X00024-69-B-0606 has been issued by the Naval Ship Systems Command, Washington, D.C., for the construction of eighty 124-foot YGN garbage lighters to the following nine yards: Atlantic Marine, Inc., Fort George Island, Fla.; Colberg, Inc., Stockton, Calif.; Gretna Machine & Iron Works, Inc., Harvey, La.; Mari-nette Marine Corp., Marinette, Wis.; Martinolich Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Wash.; Twin City Shipyard, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.; Weaver Shipyards, Orange, Texas; Zidell Explorations, Inc., Portland, Ore., and New Bern Shipyards, Inc., New Bern, N.C. 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News